gnucash on alpha

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 12:32:27PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 01:14:05AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> >> 
> >> There is a Debian maintainer with an alpha machine who can install the
> >> gnucash build dependencies in a chroot on his machine.  Since gnucash
> >> fails utterly on alpha (with a crash as soon as a register is opened)
> >> this seems worth investigating.  I don't have time in the near future.
> >> 
> >> Is there a developer here who is willing?  I can put you in touch with
> >> the alpha-owner.
> >> 
> >> Thomas
> >
> >
> > Do you have a link to the stack trace?  Maybe it's a long-shot, but
> > since the symptom seems the same as the MacIntel problem, maybe the
> > fix is the same:
> >
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339489
> 
> A stack trace, such as it is, can be found at:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=378346
> 
> The bug does not seem to be the same; the Mac failure is a protection
> fault in libgnomecanvas, and the alpha failure is 
> an assertion failure in garbage collection in libglib.

#9  0x000002000202403c in g_logv () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#10 0x0000020002024084 in g_log () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#11 0x0000020002024114 in g_assert_warning () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#12 0x0000020002ee5c40 in gail_tree_view_new ()
   from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgail.so
#13 0x000002000201b59c in g_child_watch_add () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#14 0x0000020002018090 in g_main_context_dispatch ()
   from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#15 0x000002000201c660 in g_main_context_check ()
   from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#16 0x000002000201cb94 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#17 0x00000200014ed088 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#18 0x000002000038abc8 in gnc_ui_start_event_loop ()
   from /usr/lib/gnucash/gnucash/libgncmod-gnome-utils.so.0

That's probably not a bug in GnuCash - more likely libgail.  I'd
recommend filing it against libgail.

-chris